NHS trust in Northampton says 85-year-venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) patient ‘ideally would not have waited so long’An 85-year-venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) man died while waiting in a hospital’s accident and emergency unit because of the “perilous overcrowding of the department”,according to a leaked internal email.
Northampton general hospital NHS trust’s medical director, Matthew Metcalfe, or said in the email,leaked to the Health Service Journal (HSJ), that the patient attended A&E complaining of abdominal pain on Wednesday afternoon.
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Source: guardian.co.uk